Maybe she's supposed to be representing a hot, college-age pensioner being tasered by the vile authoritarian GOP, but demonstrating her capacity for renewed resistance by artfully framing her Crotch of Power, from whence the People will recharge their strength and issue forth with renewed Looks Like Democracy freshness.

Yes, was there throbbing dance music here? Democracy doesn't smell right without throbbing dance music. Althouse readers trust Meade to provide video documentation of these things. We need to make sure democracy is smelling right.

They should all wear uniforms and chant in harmony, like a 1,000-person barbershop quartet. To me that really says, "unity." Right now it's the Theater of the Preposterous, and everyone is trying to out-do everyone else.

"We've gotta have a great show, with a million laughs ... and color ... and a lot of lights to make it sparkle! And songs -- wonderful songs! And after we get the people in that hall, we've gotta start 'em in laughing right away. Oh, can't you just see it?!"

It looks like the same building that was being represented two weeks ago as "dear to the people of Wisconsin, and among the most beautiful Capitols in the whole nation" is now an open-mic venue for drunken malcontents.Nice job, Madison.

These photos make the protesters seem harmless but there has already been a LOT of union violence and threatened violence. The people who were organizing the recall of the Dem fleabaggers had to move the location after the original one had 50 death threats called in. Then they were assailed by union thugs and had their petitions torn up. I think it is very telling that 18 politicians (not citizens but the privileged political class) have received death threats and no arrests have been made. These people aren't exactly trying to hide their tracks.

I would like to think Wisconsonites would frown on such intimidation but I know if they are willing to support public unions then they are willing to support nearly anything because that is just what unions do. One is part and parcel of the other.

The sad part is the unions aren't even interested in proving me wrong. Quite the opposite.

If Meade wants some good footage he should accompany the Tea Partiers. The action at the Capitol is over and all of the dirty ops will be conducted where camera coverage is less likely.

Don't be grouchy my conservative friends! Imagine how many bagels, coffees, peanut stews, pizza slices, etc. the local businesses will sell tomorrow. Positive externalities! They ran a story last weekend on the Milwaukee news about "Teddy Wedgers" -- the new owner bought the joint a year ago and he was about to close his doors...the pastie-buying protestors saved his business! Yay protestors!

Enlarging the image, the woman sharing her cleavage is obviously under the influence of "Ethos Water."

Ethos is a Greek word and denotes the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize a community, a nation or an ideology. The Greeks originally used this word to refer to the power of music to influence its hearer's emotions, behaviors, and even morals.

The filth and destruction left behind by the anti-Wisconsin-voter movement has been relatively contained thus far. I wonder, though, if Madison really wants to remain a perpetual gathering spot for the Jesse Jacksons, Michael Moores, Dick Trumkas, etc. of the world. None of those people have ever left a place better off than when they got there. Might want to think about that between bong hits, Badgers.

So while WAOW is reporting that a recall rally that was scheduled to meet at Club 64, a restraurant in Merril, had to be cancelled due to the owners receiving "more than 50 phone calls threatening to destroy their business and cause physical harm if the rally took place" there because the ralliers where going to try to get signatures to recall one of the Wayward 14, Meade is complaining that "the New Media Meadhouse has suffered a Walker/Republican legislated financial reversal.

Well, Meade, not everyone can pull down the tony six figure income your wife is taking, compliments of the dollars subitted to Madison by the 85.2% of Wisconsin workers who are non-union.

Oh, and the rally that was cancelled? It was moved to the Lincoln County Courthouse where protesters, sympathetic to your wive's taxpayer funded job, only to have goons (which Wisconsin seems to have an abundance of) intimidate those who would sign the "recall Senator Jim Holperin" petition, even going so far as to write profanity on the petitions and of course, illegally tear some of them up.

What else starts with "W"?

Democratic WHINERS.

You need to change the team name of the University of Wisconsin to the Wisconsin Whiners. It fits as there seems to be few adults in your state.

What it looks like from all the photos is that there are a lot of protesters there who are there to just protest. It isn't what is being protested really, but rather, that they can all show solidarity and just hang out being important making a difference protesting. It could just as easily been Club Gitmo, Halliburton, etc., except that the Democrats now run everything at the national level.

Probably my cynicism is showing my age. I went to college at a time when protesting was being invented, and a lot of those protesting seemed just like that - that it wasn't really whether it was against Vietnam, for drugs, or whatever. Rather, it was the protesting itself that was important.

That said, there do seem to be enough union members around there to add a level of violence to what would likely be just kids and aging hippies doing their protest thing.

Don't know if anyone's linked this, but it might explain the local gendarmes, uh, lack of enthusiasm in enforcing laws against the protesters:http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2011/03/wisconsin-unions-now-threatening.html

I know. Like when the Tea Party sleeping baggers occupied the Capitol building. Remember that? And when Republican senators fled to Canada and held up the Health Care Reform Act because Obama's Democrats couldn't form a quorum. Snark snark snark.

Ann, according to the U of W website, instate tuition for the year 2010-2011 is $18,049 and $$37,586 for out of state. That is unless you are from Minnesota, and then you get a tony discount to $28,173.

So unless you have loaded up the law school with kids from states other than Wisconsin and Minnesota, you are still relying on taxpayer funds to support you.

And I hardly thing the Walker/Republican actions have sent you and Meade into abstract poverty. It was stupid statement and shows which side of the fence Meade seems to be on. So much for fairness.

Lucius, sorry but my editor has retired for the evening. She has the Wisconsin Protest Flu or something. But don't worry - I'll force her back into the sweatshop in the morning - back to her 14 hour workday, in dangerous dusty conditions, her cramped work station lit by compact florescent bulbs.

The Tea Party protests took place largely in suburban parking lots here in Milwaukee metro -- because that's where those folks lived (and maybe where they felt comfortable?). I just don't understand the criticism at the occupation or whatever you want to call it of the capitol by protestors. It's a public building. And the square was meant for gathering. As long as people remain nonviolent and law abiding. If they are disobeying the law, they should be arrested.

I <> understand the anger at the fleeing democrats. I do not agree with what they did.

UW Madison Law School has a $26 million budget and 792 students, for a per-student cost of $32,800. Assuming they're mostly in-state that means about 60% of the cost of educating each student comes from tuition.

That doesn't mean the state government foots the rest of the bill, though. First of all, Althouse holds an endowed chair, which generally means that some or all of the position's salary is covered by the endowment.

Law schools generally are (or can be) profit centers for universities. A rarity among academic departments. If UW law school needs much taxpayer support, shame on them.

My law school, University of Virginia, decided to free itself from tax funding quite some time ago. The Virginia Law School funds itself from tuition, foundation grants and contributions, mostly from alumni. UW law school could do the same, if it so chose, and it's hardly within the power of a professor to make that decision.

Whether UW is financially self sustaining I do not know. If they are not, object to the Regents and the Law School and University administration.

No doubt shiloh will complain how Althouse is mocking the young lady and how horrible it is. If these were conservatives, he'd be mercilessly mocking them and wondering why we objected. Is it any wonder why people hate liberals?